More and more metadata

Findability and searchability.  Those were our goals for this blog--so, metadata to the rescue!

To tackle the matter of making the blog findable by a search engine, we've put metadata in the head of the blog's html template.  Looks like this:

Notice how we're also using the Dublin Core standard to describe our blog?  I didn't see other blogs doing this, but since there's an existing metadata standard to describe web documents, we're using it.  Now if anyone uses a tool that harvests DC metadata from web documents, DHSIdesign is covered.

To make the content of our blog more searchable, we're using a controlled vocabulary to tag, or label, our posts.  This way, related posts will be collocated within the blog.

Here's the CV we came up with:

Ironically, "metadata" isn't included in here. :)  So we're officially adding "metadata" to this list, starting . . . now.

Blogger is already telling us who created posts and when they were posted, so we didn't need to include that information.

Now, hopefully, people will be able to 1) find our blog and see what it's about and 2) navigate the content within.  Yay!